- Raghu Ramakrishnan
Raghu Ramakrishnan is a renowned researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is currently a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc. Previously, he was a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Ramakrishnan received a bachelor's degree from IIT Madras in 1983, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He has been selected as a Fellow of the ACM and a Packard fellow, …
- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- John McCarthy
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. McCarthy championed mathematical logic for Artificial Intelligence.
- Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", now the standard college text.
- Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of the VAX.
- Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), his Master's degree from Caltech, …
- Bob Kahn
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to transmit information on the Internet. After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. In 1972 he moved to DARPA (back then known as just ARPA), and in October of that year, …
- Gerald Jay Sussman
Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973, respectively. He has been involved in artificial intelligence research at MIT since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, …
- John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
- Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, …
- Jim Gray
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."
- Hector García Garcia-Molina
Héctor García Molina is a Mexican computer scientist. He served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and is a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors since October 2001. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award.
- Ron Rivest
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CSAIL). He is most celebrated for his work on public-key encryption with Len Adleman and Adi Shamir, specifically the RSA algorithm, for which they won the 2002 ACM Turing Award.
- Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- Butler Lampson
Butler W. Lampson (born 1943) is a computer scientist, considered to be one of the most significant in the history of the field. Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. During the 1960s, Lampson and others were part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley.
- Anita Borg
Anita Borg was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in Palatine, Illinois, Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Mukilteo, Washington.
- Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science; he received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, …
- Gene Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert.
- Roger Needham
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, …
- Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Huberman, 1939), is a prominent computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in Computer Science, in 1968 from Stanford University.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language. A rough English attempt at pronunciation of his name would be "B-yar-ne Strov-stroop". Stroustrup, in his own words, "invented C++, wrote its early definitions, …
- Dan Bricklin
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com. Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his High School years.
- Grady Booch
Grady Booch (born February 271955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM) and a series editor for Benjamin/Cummings. In 1995 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was named an IBM Fellow in 2003. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.
- David Parnas
David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is an early pioneer of software engineering who developed the concept of module design which is the foundation of object oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of technical realism.
- Ken Kennedy
American computer scientist Ken Kennedy (August 12,1945 - February 7,2007) was a professor at Rice University, and the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial software systems for programming parallel computers, including an automatic vectorizer for Fortran 77, an integrated scientific programming environment, compilers for Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran, …
- John Ousterhout
John Ousterhout (pronounced) was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. While there, he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit. Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and its Log-structured file system, LFS. Ousterhout is also the original author of the Magic VLSI Computer-aided design program.
- Bob Frankston
Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it. Frankston graduated in 1966 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and in 1970 from M.I.T.. Frankston has received numerous honors and awards for his work: * Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the invention of VisiCalc, …
- John Warnock
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the University of Utah.
- David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977, after receiving his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID, both of which are widely used. Past chair of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, …
- Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis (born July 7, 1928 in Riga, Latvia) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". Hartmanis was born in Latvia. He was a son of Martins Hermanis, a general in the Latvian Army. After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, …
- Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research and development. His career covers, and helped create, the majority of the existing relational database market today. He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems and Vertica and was previously the CTO of Informix. He is also an editor for the book "Readings in Database Systems".
- John C. Reynolds
John C. Reynolds is an American computer scientist (born June 1, 1935). John Reynolds studied at Purdue University and then earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1961. He was Professor of Information science at Syracuse University from 1970 to 1986. Since then he has been Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held visiting positions at Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Edinburgh, …
- Edgar F. Codd
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was a British computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the theory of relational databases. While working for IBM, he created the relational model for database management. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model, a very influential general theory of data management, remains his most memorable achievement.
- David J. Farber
David J. Farber is a professor of Computer Science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. He is currently Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , and is an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.
- Peter G. Neumann
Peter G. Neumann is a researcher who has worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s. He edits the Computer Risks columns for ACM "Software Engineering Notes" and "Communications of the ACM". He founded ACM SIGSOFT and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He studied at Harvard University (1950-1958), gaining a Ph.D. in 1961 after a Fulbright scholarship in Germany (1958-1960). He worked at Bell Labs from 1960 to 1970.
- John Guttag
John Guttag is a Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has served as that department's Associate Department Head for Computer Science. In January, he will become Department Head. He also heads the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Software Devices and Systems Group. This group does research in the areas of computer networks, computer and communications security, and wireless communications.
- Bernard Chazelle
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, most of his work is in computational geometry, where he has found many of the best-known algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as many useful complexity results, …
- Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull, Ph.D. (born 1945 in West Virginia) is an Academy Award winning computer scientist and current president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. As a computer scientist, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics.
- John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is a renowned theoretical computer scientist. He received his bachelor's degree from Seattle University in 1961 and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1962 and 1964, respectively. He then worked for three years at Princeton University. He has since been based at Cornell University, where he is currently the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science.